A well-illustrated and erudite monograph on the last of the libertine painters of the ancient regime, who fell off the swing of favour in his own lifetime.
Catalogue from the Garden Museum's winter exhibition which presents FW's interest in plants and environmentalism as inextricable from issues of race, belonging, justice and his own Caribbean... read more
A panoramic view of the British landscape through the eyes of writers and artists, from Bede to Barbara Hepworth and beyond: mystery, reflection, discovery, imagination, vision, etc. The sco... read more
Moore's second commission as a war artist was to draw the miners of Wheldale colliery - as the son of a coal miner himself, this commision must have had particular resonance for him.
She arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France. Her sketches of the world she encountered there must show what Madame de la Tour du Pin a decade earlier. A lovely book.
Exquisite paintings of birds' nests - she is careful in her obsession never to disturb the inhabitants, depicting only those from which the birds have flown or have been displaced by wind an... read more